Re:Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
by saagarjha on Sunday March 17, 2019 @12:27AM
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This was supposedly something that No Man's Sky was doing, was it not?
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Re:Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
by applecrazy on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:53AM
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Yes, their sound designer Paul Weir did a GDC talk on the sound engine that they built for the game. It included things like procedural riffs on an existing non-procedural soundtrack, advanced spatial SFX, and had a demo of the engine in action.
Edit: here's the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKJ_XuQjjiw
Re:Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
by sjwright on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:13AM
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And Monkey Island 2—though that wasn’t generated, it was just a large pile of musical glue that let the music flow from one area to the next.
Re:Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
by mypalmike on Sunday March 17, 2019 @05:53AM
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We did a similar thing with System Shock 2 for ambient sounds/music. We had zone triggers which fed into a DSL for queuing up/randomizing/looping audio segments. I built the runtime on top of an existing virtual-machine style audio playback system which had been developed for flight sims, where it was used to stitch together voices for ground control. I was a fairly junior dev at the time, and IIRC I was not able to implement the requested cross-fading feature in time to ship. Fortunately, the silence between tracks worked pretty well with the desired atmospheric effect.